Excited Delirium

Stories about Excited Delirium, the Shock Economy and a little fiction here and there.

Daily Archives: May 12, 2008

Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 18 (MOMYS II)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 18 of the my online book "Excited Delirium". Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index .

A small church in Heresford is where the MOMYS, or Mothers of Many Young Siblings, meet every other week. It’s an old church that was built in the 1920s by optimistic settlers, expecting a herd of parishioners to follow them here as urbanites were pushed out of expensive city areas. Instead, they were to discover that the town would be neglected and depleted of people as they left for more promising work opportunities to the south, east or west shortly after the Depression kicked in. Many of the builders left as well, but some of the sturdiest souls remained, especially those whose parents came here an hundred years before.

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Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 17 (OMNINet: Greyrock II)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 17 of the my online book “Excited Delirium”. Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index.

“We don’t’ want the draft, you idiot!” Garamond shouted into his speakerphone as he worked on a set of files in his lush Manhattan office space.

He was speaking with a Senator from Massachusetts, a novice who was elected in the most recent reversion to the Democrats. A change that Garamond conceded had to happen, if only to make the American public think voting made a difference.

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Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 16 (Mr. Kite: Between Assignments)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 16 of the my online book “Excited Delirium”. Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index.

Kite was between jobs.

It was during times like these that he would turn to the one thing that gave him a sense of stability.

John, Paul, George & Ringo. Live At Budokan. Ska, punk, 80s glam, shoe gazers, jazz, classical. ABBA to Zappa. U2. The Broken Social Scene. Daniel Lanois. Radiohead. Oasis. Primal Scream. The Manic Street Preachers.

Wherever he went, whenever it was, he could call them up and they’d play a tune or two for him.

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Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 15 (INC Story: The Univists)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 15 of the my online book "Excited Delirium". Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index .

The INC Recorder headline was titled “The Univists”, all in simple block letters.

It was a well-crafted promotional document meant to generate a boost in membership. For years, the number of members attending Univist activities – be they Sunday Mass, Saturday BBQs, or teen ‘fun nights’ – were experiencing precipitous declines.

Traditionally, the Univists targeted North American rural families and farmers – people that were alone and separated from society and who needed a support network.

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US Court Ruling on Tasers Worries Canadian Doctors

In the US, Taser International has won a court order in Ohio that forces a medical examiner to change autopsy reports.

Dr. Matthew Stanbrook of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) says the decision doesn’t take into account the difficulty of determining an exact cause of death in almost every case.

“If we were required to have at the level of scientific and medical certainty that something was the cause of death, before we were permitted to declare it, most of the people who died in North America would have died of unknown causes,” Stanbrook said.

“It is a physician making their best judgment given all the facts available.”

Stanbrook is deputy editor of the CMA Journal, which last week carried an editorial that expressed discontent with the current research into the effects of Taser use on suspects. The editorial said most of that work was done at the behest of Taser International and needed to be verified by independent researchers.

Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 14 (Mr. Kite’s Love Life)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 14 of the my online book “Excited Delirium”. Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index.

Kite had an odd sense of humour. Once, when he was in a long love relationship – assuming you call three months ‘long’ – he and his girlfriend visited her parents for dinner.

Her parent’s house was Norman Rockwell meets John Hughes: a big old white Georgian home leaning back on the lawn the way a crocodile sits back from the Nile waiting for errant hippos to come in for the kill. The garage sat to the right and looked like a big white clown with three big glaring teeth wearing a coal black hat, already satisfied because it had eaten three SUVs earlier that afternoon.

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